the waterworks experience

After designing and successfully crowdfunding Waterworks, bringing our natural watering system to market turned out to be less straightforward than we had hoped.

We learned a great deal about running a business that first year and started to craft a strategy about the way we would develop House of Thol further.

Working best while coming up with solutions in our own living environment, we focus on keeping our designs close to ourselves.We aim to create durable products that add value to our daily lives and help us maintain a green lifestyle.

Four years on, we have established a worldwide network of supporters and shops, and have sold almost 5000 Waterworks-sets.​We are ready for a new green product to add to our House of Thol collection.

Crafting the constellations

Two years ago, we designed a little metal frame that would easily hold your avocado-pits in a glass of water: the pit-frame.We designed it to be flat-pack and fit a variety of jars and glasses.

​A large Dutch Garden center opted to produce it, but ran into management-issues and production stalled.​Last year we took matters back into our own hands and developed the Flower Constellations: based on the same flat-pack multi-fit principle, but for flowers and with an improved design. ​

We aimed to create a durable tool that would not only be functional, but would be lovely to gift as well.

​​While researching random patterns, we ran into the constellations.

A perfect fit, not because we're into astrology that much, but because we love that millenia ago, people tried to make sense of the skies and created the constellations as some kind of memory aid. Telling each other stories so their order of things would not be forgotten.

the next step

After a year of designing, testing, tweaking, modeling and prototyping, our Flower Constellations are all set for production.​We have a reliable production partner lined up, and are now ready for the next step.

Having our friends and family fall in love with the product just like we did, gave us the right amount of confidence to set up our Kickstarter Campaign.